It’s normal for any launch to have issues, and the 5th Anniversary of Star Trek Online is no exception.  My advice if you do try to play anything, try to keep your sense of humor.  QA is a frustrating process* that your not sure if it will work until it’s really live. Oh and the new Harry Kim mission is a lot of fun 😉 … Continue reading KEEP CALM AND BUG REPORT ON – 5th ANNIVERSARY LAUNCH IS.. what we expected.

Trendy dropped a bomb this afternoon with the details released on the new lockbox and lobi ships coming on Thursday, the start of the 5th Anniversary of Star Trek Online.  And by bomb I mean the 2 newest monsters courtesy of the Vaadwaur war effort, with both ships firmly in my must have column. Vaadwaur Manasa Assault Escort (Lockbox, aka ‘Intel Scimi‘) T6 Trait: Frontal … Continue reading Playable Vaadwaur & APU Ships Update

An interesting selection of Vaadwaur tech showing up in the Lobi Store and the Vaadaur lockbox due to arrive with the 5th Anniversary this Thursday.  As usual the list just covers basic information with lockbox ship data due to arrive later this week.  Com’on ‘Trendy, post early and surprise us. First thoughts – Lobi stuff looks more interesting than the box contents 😉  And a … Continue reading Vaadaur Lock Box Contents AND Lobi Store Additions Confirmed

Two Tribble forum postings today have given us the heads up that the officer training system will be launched incomplete.  The ability to have one officer share a rare skill with another officer (at the expense of that rare officer) is no longer available.  Additionally rare officers who’ve lost their special ability will be reset. Moreover for the time being you will lose the ability … Continue reading Bridge Officer training to be ‘incomplete’ at launch, will reset rare doff skills.

How much? 1,000 Qmendations. Do we get a discount for other toons?  YES! Kobali starships are known for their exceptional ability to provide support to their allies in large scale starship combat. The Samsar Cruiser is a durable Kobali Tier 6 cruiser that was outfitted to fill the role of a mobile command center. Quick reference list: T6 Command/Engineering Cruiser Bridge Officer Stations: 1 Lieutenant … Continue reading Anniversary T6 Ship Revealed: Kobali Samsar Cruiser

One of the more frustrating problems with Delta Rising was the persistence of the dreaded loadout bug.  The QA team spent weeks tracking down the issue, making a valiant effort to finally stamp it out after seven weeks. Coinciding with this weeks update, this little gem returns. Good News:  Crypticfrost reports the QA Lead has been able to reproduce the issue, but is uncertain as … Continue reading Loadout issue resurfaces again. Fix incoming before the anniversary event?

After a relatively short test on Tribble, we got some great news this morning from Gorngonzolla: Hi all, I wanted to inform you all of some upcoming improvements we’ll be making to R&D research projects. You might recall that very early on there was a bug that allowed players to slot more than one R&D research project per school at a time. While this was … Continue reading STO GOOD NEWS: Active R&D research projects by school increasing from 1 to 3.

Lootcritter – CX responded recently to the CaptainGecko Reddit letter thread with an interesting take on the whole XP progression discussion.  It’s a long read, but it really hits on a number of points that shed some light on what’s actually happening.  After listening to Borticus’s comments this evening, I think CX hits the nail on the head. I invited him to share his thoughts … Continue reading Guest Blogger [CX]: Delta Rising: A New Perspective

Just confirmed by Jeremy “Borticus” Randall  at 7:17pm during the live Tribbles in Ecstasy broadcast – there are new Command Ships incoming as part of the Anniversary.  This is the first official comment from Cryptic. He’s also confirmed there will be a ‘single’ commands bridge officer, if you want to use the new abilities right away, as Cryptic intends you to train your existing bridge … Continue reading Confirmed: Command Ships are incoming to the Anniversary [Borticus].

Here we go again 😉  The new infographic takes into consideration the feedback we’ve had from the forums, pod casts and Reddit.  Thanks again to everyone who assisted in making this possible. Reddit Update: Below the graphic is a bit of history surrounding this effort with a breakdown what we learned while doing this project.  I apologize for the size for the 2.8 MB size … Continue reading Revised Infographic: Delta Rising Upgrade Costs 2015